Green Party announce candidate for Hartlepool by-election
The Teesside Lecturer and mum-of-three is fighting for a green recovery for the seaside town
Rachel Featherstone, who has been selected by the Green Party as their candidate in the upcoming Hartlepool by-election
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Keir Starmer is not highly rated by voters in the consituency (Getty Images)
Labour is on course to lose Hartlepool to the Conservatives for the first time in over half a century, according to a new poll of voters in the constituency.
Ahead of a parliamentary by-election in the town on 6 May pollster Survation found the Tories winning 49 per cent of the vote in the seat, compared to 42 per cent for Labour.
And in a surprise development, the Northern Independence Party clocks in at third place, ahead of the Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Reform UK (formerly known as the Brexit party).
Hartlepool by-election poll shows Tories edge ahead - but lots of voters are still undecided
It would appear a significant proportion of 2019 Brexit Party voters have moved to the Conservatives (Image: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images, Stefan Rousseau-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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Labour losing Hartlepool will come as no surprise given Starmer s indulgence of identity politics
Working-class voters in the north of England are hardly going to vote for the non-entity of Keir Starmer
6 April 2021 • 1:21pm
Most of us are familiar with the idea of massive swings producing amazing parliamentary by-election results at the start of mid-term - which is where we are in the current political cycle. Such results sometimes signal that a long-term political sea change is underway and sometimes they do not. For instance, when the Liberal Party won Croydon North West from the incumbent Tories in October 1981, some commentators thought it was the beginning of the end for Margaret Thatcher. Which, obviously, it wasn’t. But when Tony Blair’s Labour swept the Tories aside in Dudley West in December 1994, it really was a sign that John Major’s ailing regime was done for.